Electric compress heater



Patented Mar. 5, 1929.

lllil'lED STATES WILLIAM L. misnomer neirnss'u'no, or-insomnia.

ELECTRIC COMPRESS Ell-EATER.

Application filed July 28,

My invention is an electric compress heater to maintain hot wet compresses tor treat ing diilerent parts of the body at a hot and uniform temperature.

In the treatmentof various parts of the body by hot wet compresses, it has been necessary to change the compresses frequently on account of their rapid cooling. This, in some cases, makes it necessary to have the constant attention of a nurse or attendant, as well as being inconvenient for the patient.

An object, therefore, 01"" my invention is a compress heater which will actto maintain wet compresses when placed on the body at the proper hot temperature by preventing their cooling, as well-as maintain ing the compresses sufficiently moist to be effective in the treatment undertaken.

Another object of my invention is the construction of a compress heater in the form of a casing or housing which may be placed over the body, such as the legs, arms, etc, and having electric lamps or heating elements therein which will maintain compresses hot, and at the same time avoid drying the compresses to a material. extent.

Another object of my invention is to form the compress heater so that it may be closed at one end by a sliding gate, or the gate be opened to allow passing of the leg or arm or the trunk of the body through the heater, and in addition, making of the heater telescopic so that it may be compressed into a short length or extended to form a long heater. 7

in cmistructing the heater l form a casing or cover which is open on the bottom and has substantially straight sides with a horizontal top with curves merging at the corners. Above the top there is a lamp receptacle forming a channel extending upwardly 'from the main portion of the top.

The device is preferably made in two lengths, one part having an inwardly turned rim at the bottom edge to engage the lower edge of the other part and therefore allow sliding. The ends ofthe heater have openings and one of these is closable by a slidable partition or slidable door which raises and lowers.

My invention is illustrated panying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly broken away of my compress heater as applied to a persons leg and foot.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal in the accomsection taken 1927. Serial No. 208,948.

on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 in the direction" o'l the arrows, the lamps and their sockets beingfshown in elevation.

I Figure 3 is a vertical cross section on the line of Fig. 12 in the direction of the arrows.

in constructing my invention I have an outer section or casing '11 with side walls 12 turned inwardly as indicatedat 1.3,.torming longitudinal grooves 14 at opposite sides. The top walls 15 are horizontal and merge into the sidewalls 12 by, curves 16. A longitudinal channel 17 is formed by upper side walls 18 having curved corners l9 mergin into the top 15. The channel has an upoei wall 20 preferably merging into the walls 18 by a curve-21. Connected to one end of this section 11 the end wall 22 which has an opening 28 therethrough. This openine isclosed by a slidable gate 2% which operates in vertical grooves 25 formed on the opposite side edges of the end 22. e

A lamp socket 526 is secured to the upper wall 20 and a lamp 27 or other heating elementinay be secured therein. An inner telescopic section 28 is of substantially the same shape as the section 11, having side walls 29, the lower edge 30 of which slides 1n the grooves .14. The top 31 fits underneath the top 15 of the section 11 and the channel 82 is formed ,ofthe same shape as the channel 17, and has a lamp socket with a lamp 3% therein. An electric wire is connected to the, socket 3S and passes through an insulator 3G in the end 87, this end being formed, with an opening 353. The electric wire 89 may be connected between the sockets, having these in series, or the in parallel if desired.

The upper inner corners oi? the channel of the inner telescopic section has a cutout part al) to allow this to pass the socket 26 so that if desired the inner section may be shoved substantially completely in the outer section, or maybe pulled out substantially the full length of both of the sections.

The manner of using and functioning of my electric compress heater is substantially follows: h

After a hot wet compress has been placed on the patients body, as for instance on the leg as shown in Fig. 2, the heater is then placed over the leg, with the opening 38 fitting overthe upper part and the gate 24 closed so that the foot will not be exposed.

wire 39 maybe separate, putting both lamps e ad tl'iatthe parts of the principles or m This is presuming that the compress covers the toot. it packing of cotton or other illml may then be placed around the leg at is then suificient to maintain the compre hot, and Without substantiallyevapore moisture therefrom, as there is very lltll opportunity for moisture to escape from t telescopic casing.

A a time For instance, th

e, to be exposed: The gate 22 may be lifted {llLihQ toot pass through the opening 23,'tl t v lmvered, or the space fill oi. cloths, towel? or iii suiiicient closure or pacot the asine' p it is apparent that by collapsing the struct i e, the two telescopic sections, one in 3, that electric lan ps or heaters may be placed relatively close together anti thus give a concentrated he; t on a short section and in this regard it is to be understood that heating elements n i be substituted for ordinary la np; or ii a light treatment desired that ultra violet or other "forms of treating lamps may be substituted.

it is to be understood that my elect compress heater may be made .i va shapes and tleslgns suitable tra r may be i in 'the invention WltloL departing fr 111 the M hit the 'eoi as st torth in the cleszription, drawings ant claims.

I claim:

1. ln an electric h, i i i of a casi g open at toe bottoinantl'having an opening in at least one end, adapted to lit over part a persons body a groove like channel extending along the top of the casing, and electric heating e ements in said channel.

J. b the opening 38, forming a sutiiciently tight closure, and the electric lamps switched in the electric circuit. The heat from the lamps Pitt 'lOIl l-n an electric heater, the comhination t a ct sing open at the bottom and having at l last one end with an opening therein of smaller site than the cross section of the casing, acla Jted to lit over a part of a persons h Jove lil-ze channel along the 1 t s i no tfietililtl heating elec heater, the combination of a at the bottom adapted to lit a part a persons hotly, said casing having; ends with open igs of taller size than the cross section oi: the casinpj, one of openings bei= closed by a gate ucture, a channel tiopcd ahcwe the nun-5; 'iavin electric heating elements therein.

4;. In an eie ic heater, the coinh of a sectional cash ma n a plurali parts, one part in e, in the other to all on EClQSQGplClllOVQlHC L c 1 beinsz; pen at the bottoni and ent me of va'h'ich lffi an onenin size the n the ore c nei in the upper 9 electric heating elements In an electric heater, :1 ca olurality of sections, each. side Walls, top Walls unit mg upwardly from the too \v ins being;- interfitting di d being elescopie to allow sliding movemei h -h c2 open at the bet l l is/l an and having ends, one of Wlnchhas an opening of smaller size than the cross notion of the casing, the other end having a gate forming a closure, and

electric heat elements inthechannel.

(3 In an electric heater, the con'ibination of a casing formed in a plurality of sections, aci section having vertical Walls, a

horizontal top with a cln nnel extending up wardlyvtherct'om, the vertical Walls of one of the sections havii an inturned lower ed e 'l'orn'iing a longitudinal the lo ertical W'll t the other section a id groove, the sections he vertical Walls, the top hing, each sectimi 1 1 an opening; and a gate i n at, llust lliltli the opei tclc neatnigel nients in the t have signed niv lVILLlAM L. BENTON. 

